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... which is also on fire.
We've replaced that DEI nonsense with a strict meritocracy, where by "merit" we mean "being a white guy in a suit".
... while on fire.
A small correction: voting for the Democrats is actually a case of voting for the LAMER of two evils ...
"Epstein File revelations confirm Trump's lifelong belief in the importance of reaching out to young people."
I just feel that perhaps a testimonial from a convicted child sex trafficker isn't quite the proof of excellent moral character that the White House seems to think it is.
If Donald Trump really has died, it's proof that he'll do ANYTHING to distract us from the Epstein Files.
Guns don't kill people, Americans with guns kill people?
Like Robin Hood firing a final arrow from his deathbed, I like to imagine a dying Trump rallying just long enough to hurl one last bottle of ketchup at the wall. Actually, I just like to imagine a dying Trump, period.
In the Soviet Union, when the party chairman died, the TV stations used to play "Swan Lake" on endless repeat. What would be appropriate 'hold music' on Fox when Trump finally succumbs to bronzer poisoning or a fatal hair malfunction?
I absolutely believe this can happen, with Vance being declared either a Deep State infiltrator or a secret Democrat, responsible for undermining the MAGA movement from within & betraying the God-Emperor's holy project. But who will inherit Trump's mantle? Everyone will try for it but who will win?
I'm ready for the timeline in which RFK steals Donald Trump's body and leaves it in Central Park as a prank. Assuming he doesn't just try to decapitate it with a chainsaw so he can keep the skull as a trophy.
Remember when people were trying to talk up the idea that Elon Musk was the real power in the US, so Trump would get jealous & kick Elon's ass to the curb? And Trump's response was "Yeah, that's not going to work." So where's Elon today? Maybe we need to start doing something similar with RFK jr.
Apparently the new preferred term for "bought into a truckload of anti-scientific bullcrap pushed by charlatans and scammers" is "vaccine hesitant". RFK jr isn't an antivaxxer any more, he's not even "skeptical", he's "vaccine hesitant". Jesus wept …
GUN FANS: We must have guns to defend against Tyranny! TYRANNY: 'sup, dudes? GUN FANS: Oh, hey, Tyranny, we were just talking about you. Need a hand with anything? We've got guns.
At this point, ruining the entire industry is starting to look like a moral duty, and if authors can lead the way, I'm all for it.
But it's OK, because there was a compelling national interest justifying the exfiltration of this data, namely ... (checks notes) ... ingesting it into the training set for Elon Musk's Grok AI, so that the self-styled "Mechahitler" could triage the population according to Musk's mood of the moment.
"The government is doing a fascism. Here are the top six ice-cream flavors to take your mind off it while you wait to be arrested."
Like Tom Sawyer tricking his friends into whitewashing a fence for him, savvy Democratic governors can start going "Oh, Mr. Trump, sir, my state is so terribly crime-ridden, please send the National Guard …" Suddenly you've got a stealth Public Works Administration going …
However he dies, we'll have to endure decades of batshit conspiracy theories about how he was secretly murdered by the Deep State. Of course, if there actually WAS a Deep State worthy of the name, they'd have murdered him already, but that never seems to occur to anyone.
Despotism isn't at the door. It's in the living room, drinking beer from the fridge and watching TV with its feet on the couch.
But if the government cracks down on Farage, then it might anger HUNDREDS of racists, who will then be fawningly interviewed on the BBC for hours on end, & the media will call it a "popular uprising" & start to talk about "government in crisis", after which abject surrender is the only option left.
The thing about dictators is, even if you're on the inside or on the same side...eventually it catches up to you. Look at the military insiders in North Korea Kim has had killed. They were privileged. They had privileged families. They thought this was an "other people problem," until it wasn't.
If we're going to remove people from positions of authority for committing financial fraud, maybe we should start with the president.
THE LYING FAKE NEWS LIBERAL MEDIA WANT YOU TO BELIEVE IT IS NOT 2016, THE FIRST YEAR OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL PRESIDENCY EVER. THE 2025 HOAXERS CLAIM SLEEPY JOE BIDEN WHO STOLE THE 2038 ELECTION, WAS ONCE PRESIDENT. OBVIOUSLY UNTRUE. RESET THE CLOCKS! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER. MAGA.
They could call them "Protection Squadron Special Commandos". That would sound good. Of course it sounds even better in the original German.
Pretty much everything Trump says here is a lie, starting with the three-word claim "I have friends".
If journalists don't want to be killed in Israeli air strikes, they shouldn't hang around legitimate military targets, like hospitals and emergency food distribution points.
"I'm sorry. US military intervention against violent authoritarians and backward, fanatical zealots is only available outside the United States. All our soldiers are currently assisting with fabricated crime emergencies in major cities. Please try again later, or not at all."
I'm so old that I remember when Republicans thought "death panels" were a Bad Thing, but that was before death panels were personally incarnated as a piece of human beef jerky with a roadkill fetish, which by some mechanism I don't fully understand somehow makes them a Good Thing.
Be mean to Trump, get punished. That's the law. I think it's in the Constitution somewhere.
I'm curious to see how fast the wheels come off if Trump dies. It's hard to see the same cult of personality coalescing around Vance or Russell Vought, and there's a reason why Stephen Miller has to be kept out of sight. And I can't imagine one of Trump's failsons inheriting the mantle, DPRK-style.
When Trump said he'd give RFK jr a place in his administration, I wondered why, and what Trump could possibly owe him. (Clearly it wasn't a quid pro quo for RFK ending his campaign; Trump seldom honors his debts). Now I think RFK was chosen just for the damage he would do.
... or in his administration.
And his trademark catchphrase was "You're fired", so what did they expect?
That's because a St. George's Cross is just patriotism and pride in our heritage, but telling people to love each other is inexcusable radical left-wing "woke" fanaticism that will inevitably lead to the destruction of our entire civilization. Something like that, anyway.
Now it's antisemitic to suggest that the hospital didn't have it coming.
There's a case to be made that most people's daughters are probably safer on the subway than around Andrew Cuomo.
Did big, strong Ghislaine Maxwell have tears in her eyes when she said this?
I'll take wholly unpredictable things that no one could possibly have predicted for $500, Alex. It's weird that when you rain bombs on people, destroy their homes and kill their families and friends, it doesn't make them like you. What's up with that?
"But if we did that, he might get ANGRY with us, and start interfering with our business."
There's only one key takeaway: a convicted sex trafficker told exactly the story that one of her alleged clients wanted her to tell, and was rewarded by a transfer to a more comfortable prison with suggestions of a possible pardon.
History as Headlines: "Nation Fucked When Big Balls Beaten By Teens"
Downgrading the nation's security capabilities to own the libs.
I'm starting to think that Mr. Trump believes that the only real problem with slavery is that it made the USA look bad. "Woke People (like the Radical Left Democrats) like to talk about Slavery because they hate The United States (the Greatest Country ever, with the Greatest President). So sad!"
Do we need a term for "people who inexplicably still get to write opinion pieces in major newspapers, despite coming up with some of the stupidest takes in human history on a weekly basis"? Something like 'neoclown'?
I'm honestly surprised they went with the "other health problems" angle and didn't just run a headline that said "They Became Symbols of Gazan Starvation. But What If The Real Problem Was Bad Parenting?"
1. Nobody is starving. 2. Those apparently starving people were sick anyway. 3. OK, admittedly, some previously healthy people are starving, but there aren't many of them. 4. OK, sure, lots of people are now starving. But it's their fault. 5. Starving was last week. Find something new to talk about.
The Fascist International.
2025 Inspired: "The Constitution was written by property-owning white males, therefore the Census should really only count white male property owners."
For anyone who still doesn't know, this is ACTUALLY what it means to be "86'd".
"But what if US presidents perform better when given unchecked power & carte blanche to enrich themselves personally? What if trans people really ARE responsible for all the evils afflicting society? What if democracy & civil rights are, in fact, un-American? We hear from experts on both sides …"
Couldn't someone have just sent Big Balls some thoughts and prayers? Also, shouldn't-blame-the-victim-and-all-that, but if it turns out that it wasn't a car-jacking at all & that he was just being a total dick before he got himself pounded by random kids, I won't be even slightly surprised.
"VISIBLE poverty?" Haven't you heard that the OTHER part of the strategy is to imprison the homeless? Out of sight, out of mind. Can't say that everything isn't wonderful in Great America if poor people are too scared to show their faces because being poor in public is now a criminal offense.
"All The News That's Pleasing To Trump"
Trump might have been born in New York, but two decades of watching Fox News have turned him into just another terrified elderly conservative, convinced that "crime is out of control" and begging the police to do something about "those people".
Judging by some pictures I've seen of Tayip Erdogan, the answer to the question "What was Gollum doing?" might actually be "Governing Turkiye."
He makes a good point though. Apparently competent white men have become so demoralized that none of them are available to work in the Trump administration.
If we redefined starving Gazans as "restaurantless people in search of culinary sanctuary", would the billionaire-owned media become sympathetic to their plight? "Fatima, 34, would just like to offer her children an artisanal meal. But in the restaurantless wastes of Khan Younis, that's not easy …"
If what we hear is true, Pete Hegseth believes that women should submit to other people's husbands as well.
I am not a lawyer, but I think that if you post it on TikTok, it is presumptively not a "true threat". There may be people on TikTok who WANT to kill the president, but there is probably no one on TikTok who is CAPABLE of killing the president.
Mmm, rich businessmen bring tacky gifts for the Maximum Leader. Are we a banana republic yet? How about now? How about now?
I will say that the life-size sculpture of a black Cistercian nun fast-roping down from the ceiling makes a definite statement. What that statement is, I have no idea, but I think we can consider it made.
They've moved on from saying the quiet part loud to making the quiet part the loud part and saying it so fucking loud that you can't help hearing it even if you block your ears.
If anyone on BlueSky knows the name of a good taxidermist, please forward their contact details to the buffalo.
I imagine they'll vote the way that sexual predator Donald Trump tells them.
The Democrats' seeming lack of interest in doing anything effective to push back against the Trump administration is easy to understand once you realize that their giant money-sucking spam machine works even better when they're not in power. data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mother...
"The Ones Who Said 'Actually, I Hear Omelas is Lovely This Time of Year'"
First they came for Alan Dershowitz's pierogi, and I said nothing because I wasn't Alan Dershowitz and I didn't really want a pierogi right then anyway. Now I think about it, though, a pierogi sounds pretty good, but I'm still not Alan Dershowitz, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ …
I love the fact that a thread about a mayoral candidate's response to gun crime turned into a discussion of bodega cats. That feels very ... very New York, somehow.
Fortunately, the federal government is working on a 100% dirty electricity standard that should take care of this solar nonsense and make us firmly dependent on fossil fuel companies again, as God and the Constitution intended. (and incidentally cook the planet as a side-effect. Hooray!)
Why does Mamdani refuse to admit he has no plan to prevent a resident of Nevada from driving across the country with an illegal weapon to commit murders in New York? Why is he unwilling to keep New Yorkers safe by hiring enough police to form a defensive line 5 deep outside every major building?
Great that the woman has been released, but this is also another classic feature of fascism. Members of the regime in good standing can get you exemptions from the law. It gives them extra power & creates networks of patronage. Members of the opposition, of course, have no such special powers.
He does get to spend quite a lot of time playing golf, which he seems to enjoy. And posting angry rants on social media, which, while it doesn't look particularly enjoyable, apparently scratches some weird itch he has.
During the War on Terror, the US government used to send suspected "terrorists" to places like Syria or Egypt to be tortured. Now it's doing it again, but this time wholesale and to people who aren't even credibly suspected of any crime except being in the wrong place.
"There's a lot of interest in the Epstein trafficking case right now. We need to reopen a full-scale investigation." "Awesome. So we can finally punish the abusers, right?" "No, so we can find a pretext for pardoning one of the traffickers."
During a traffic court case, I realized that cops teach each other HOW to lie: the specific lies that the cop told were obviously designed to make sure that his testimony checked the required boxes to get a conviction.
I don't believe that the word "moral" means what he apparently thinks it does.
I've always assumed that while Trump might have plenty of sexual skeletons in his closet, the real dirt would be financial. In addition to providing women & girls to powerful men, Epstein also moved a lot of dubious money. How much of that was connected to Trump & is that why he's REALLY panicking?
It's satisfying to think that, whatever you might assume at first glance, all three of the athletes on that podium were people of courage and integrity. It's a picture not just about righteous protest, but also about being an ally.
What can we learn? Probably nothing, given that we didn't learn from all the other UBI studies that showed exactly the same things.
I firmly believe the entire Trump family's understanding of cryptocurrency starts & ends with the knowledge that if they do what they're told, they get some money. That's it. That's all they know. The idea that Eric, the dumbest of a dumb clan, has a useful opinion on the value of $ETH is a joke.
Cram people into a refugee camp and expect them to become deradicalized? Sure, that'll work. Always has done before. And by "always", I mean "never". Even if you could overlook the moral issues, this simply will not work. They know that. Which means they aren't interested in making it work.
I'm convinced this is the plan. And maybe they'll require them to "work off their debt" before they're deported, thus creating a slave labor force whose services can be offered to favored corporations at bargain basement prices.
I'm sure we're all shocked, shocked to hear of a possible conflict of interest and suggestions of shady dealings involving Donald Trump. Seriously, what are the odds?
Now that DoJ officials are finally interviewing Maxwell, we can expect some dramatic new revelations about Obama's role in Jeffrey Epstein's trafficking operation.
"We will do what it takes to be even crueler and more reactionary than the Tories."
They COULD just come straight out and say that democracy is "against the national interest", and then at least we'd know where we stood. Not that we haven't guessed, of course, but they could make it explicit.
"When supporters of yours say things that are blatantly antisemitic, you can't leave room for that to just sit there." Tempting to answer that with "Why not? The President does." But I suspect that wouldn't help.
"You'll love new I Can't Believe It's Not Genocide™, with all the great human rights violations you love, but 100% of the deniability. I Can't Believe It's Not Genocide™: for that creamy war crimes taste you adore, but with no awkward trips to the Hague."
I'm not saying Donald Trump isn't a good judge of people, but by his own admission he only noticed that Jeffrey Epstein was "a creep" after almost two decades spent going to parties filled with half-naked, underage girls with him. Maybe he just likes to give people the benefit of the doubt.
Were they perhaps "IDF-involved shootings"?
Nothing says "using the power of AI to create a reliable source of unbiased knowledge" quite like having to tweak your creation continually so that it won't accidentally veer into liberalism when the real-world facts steer the model in the "wrong" direction.
People say that the government doesn't do enough forward-thinking planning to address the impact of climate change, yet here they are proactively creating a special security force to defend the super-wealthy and their assets against climate change victims and refugees, what more could we ask for?
I'm sure Ken Paxton is strongly motivated to get to the truth of the matter. We should see results any day now.
Yes, but it turns out that no one actually had sex with any of the women Maxwell reportedly trafficked, so it's like all the trafficking didn't actually happen, so I guess she's still sitting in prison because ... (gestures vaguely) ... maybe she likes the decor?
It's like all that (alleged) human trafficking and sex abuse never actually happened. I'm sure they'll be letting Ghislaine Maxwell out of jail any day now.
"But if we don't publish the hit-pieces the Nazis send us, maybe the Nazis won't send us any more hit-pieces."
Epstein must have died a disappointed man. He & Maxwell went to vast efforts to procure young women & then every rich deviant he offered them to just said "No thanks, Jeff, I'm not into that stuff." Apparently, despite the scale of his operations, NO ONE ever took him up on his offers. Frustrating.